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Time magazine recently interviewed Morgan Spurlock, the writer and director of Super Size Me and the creator and star of 30 Days. He talks about his new season of 30 Days which starts tomorrow at 10:00pm on the FX channel, and continues every Wednesday. I recommended the show last year and it didn’t disappoint, even [...]

Floyd Landis, Chattanooga Originally uploaded by Frank Steele. No, not Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play, and maybe not exactly to the day, but 20 years ago Greg Lemond was the first American to ever win the Tour de France. He was obviously better than the rest of the field, and his only rival [...]

This is the third post referring to Jon Udell in the last 10 days, but his influence on us is a lasting one. I found something that Jon spoke about at our 2006 Faculty Academy. In the podcast he refers to “the idea of assigning names to fragments of media” (at about the 20:28 mark [...]

I couldn’t be more excited about this news about an update coming for the Sanyo VPC-HD1, a.k.a. the Xacti. The update is the HD1a, and I disagree with Matt Burns that this is just a “we forgot to put some things in the first model so here is an update” update. The new features that [...]

Thanks a lot Jon. First you posted that great lawnmower video, which reintroduced me to Blip.tv, and got the wheels in my head spinning. Then you had a fantastic “insider” podcast where you talked with Blip.tv founder Mike Hudack. As everybody knows by now, Jon was our guest speaker at the 2006 Faculty Academy in [...]

Photo by BlueAlgae Well, I sort of got my answer from this post about the state of consumer technology 10 years ago. An article in the New York Times, in 1996, was proclaiming the DVD already dead, a non-starter, and the laserdisc was coming out with some great titles. As I’ve said before, I always [...]

“And keep your eyes wide The chance won’t come again And don’t speak too soon For the wheel’s still in spin” Chin Up!

This video is interesting in a couple of ways. First, it points to a new(-ish) video service called Blip.tv which, like YouTube, serves up citizen-created video and then allows you to share it in a munber of ways. Its codde didn’t paste into my WordPress install as easily as YouTube, so there will be some [...]

I wanted to do this yesterday. Welcome Dr. Frawley. We’re excited that you’re here . . . and a fond farewell to Dr. Anderson.